Renewables: "talking 'bout my generation"

ispookie666

Yay made 1.1 O have to go back to 15th April to find a day worse than today.

Exiled_Tyke

I think I'm the lucky one then. 2.2 O's yesterday! Still above estimate for the month but that could go today.

shavy65

Exiled_Tyke wrote: »

I think I'm the lucky one then. 2.2 O's yesterday!

I must be even luckier - 6.5 O`s yday. That`s 13.6 O`s in the last 2 days! Today has started well, and so far is looking similar to last couple of days

jrfarrim

6.8 O's on Monday followed by 1.4 O's Tuesday, only in the UK!

Merlin139

2.3 O's here for me yesterday.

Picked the wrong week to invite my parents up. Having driven down to the south cost over night Monday and back home during the day yesterday I experienced way too much rain than I would have liked. I can see why results were poor for everyone!

defaultdriver

Only 0.8 O's yesterday.

Markj1110

YUK!! 1.25 O's yesterday, it rained all day and its still drizzling today.

jackieblack

Had an unsolicited phone call last night from someone (who knew my ex-directory phone number, name, address and that I had PV panels :mad:) wanting to arrange a visit from an 'engineer' about 'the new lithium batteries'.

I've only been keeping half an eye on these, but am I right in thinking they're still not really cheap/efficient enough to be a cost effective proposition?

He kept insisting that these 'engineers' (who are 'in my area at the moment' ) aren't salesmen or pushy, but he was quite difficult to get rid of (without simply hanging up on him) so goodness only knows what his definition of pushy is :eek:
And there's no information they can send by email, apparently, it has to be an 'engineer's' visit
:wall:

zeupater

jackieblack wrote: »

Had an unsolicited phone call last night from someone (who knew my ex-directory phone number, name, address and that I had PV panels :mad:) wanting to arrange a visit from an 'engineer' about 'the new lithium batteries'.

I've only been keeping half an eye on these, but am I right in thinking they're still not really cheap/efficient enough to be a cost effective proposition?

He kept insisting that these 'engineers' (who are 'in my area at the moment' ) aren't salesmen or pushy, but he was quite difficult to get rid of (without simply hanging up on him) so goodness only knows what his definition of pushy is :eek:
And there's no information they can send by email, apparently, it has to be an 'engineer's' visit
:wall:

Hi

Batteries are still a silly price, but I'd expect the situation to start to change later this year so keep your 'half an eye' on the product for the next couple of years, unless there's a support scheme announcement similat to FiTs. As a pre-condition of any visit I'd insist that they disclose make, capacity & fully installed guide price else they would be unwelcomed - if not forthcoming I'd just hang up because they'll almost certainly be far too expensive, even at current prices ...

I'd be pretty annoyed at receiving a call like this and would certainly request them to disclose the source database used for contact and what specific permission had be granted by myself for direct marketing on that database (DPA provisons may apply) - if not forthcoming certainly request that my details are deleted from their own database and have thm confirm that this would be done, it's usually pretty successful at convincing them to not call again, especially if the ICO is mentioned in passing ... If you're ex-directory, have you registered with TPS ? - If so, I'd certainly raise that with them also and have them confirm that they utilise TPS before cold-calling, mentioning in passing that the ICO was now issuing ~£80k fines for ignoring call preferences ....

HTH
Z

edwink

jackieblack wrote: »

Had an unsolicited phone call last night from someone (who knew my ex-directory phone number, name, address and that I had PV panels :mad:) wanting to arrange a visit from an 'engineer' about 'the new lithium batteries'.

We have had the same 3 times now. Like you they knew name address etc. We could not get rid of them on the phone either as they were so pushy.

We have often wondered if our 1st installers sold our contact details to them :mad:
Edwink